Los Angeles Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen – Louis Andriessen: The only one (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 20:55 minutes | 421 MB | Genre: Classical
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This world premiere performance by the Los Angeles Philharmonic was commissioned by the LA Phil with generous support from the MaddocksBrown Fund for New Music as part of its centennial celebrations. Recorded live in May 2019 at Walt Disney Concert Hall and conducted by LA Phil Conductor Laureate Esa-Pekka Salonen with solo vocalist Nora Fischer.
Two artistic discoveries influenced Andriessen as he wrote The only one. The first was a collection of poems by the Flemish poet Delphine Lecompte from The animals in me. “These witty, intelligent, experimental, and sometimes scabrous poems immediately fascinated me. My focus turned to faraway America, with its great tradition of songwriting”, he says.
His second discovery was the work of Nora Fischer, an Amsterdam–based singer known for developing dynamic creative projects that fuse classical and pop music. Andriessen says, “The depth of her versatility has strongly influenced the musical language of the piece”. He further explains that “the piece flirts a bit with certain kinds of pop songs and light music, and starts out with a beautiful song”.
Lorne Greene – Portrait of the West (1966/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:52 minutes | 688 MB | Genre: Country, Pop
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Actor Lorne Greene enjoyed a brief recording career in the mid-’60s, when he was at the height of his popularity thanks to his role as Ben Cartwright on the long-running Western series Bonanza. Greene was born in 1915 in Ottawa, Ontario, and went to college to study chemical engineering. He wound up discovering theater instead, and opted for a career in the performing arts. He worked in radio for a time, working his way up to become Canada’s best-known newscaster. He left for New York in 1950, and soon appeared in Broadway productions and several films. He won the role of Ben Cartwright in 1959, playing the Ponderosa Ranch’s patriarch until Bonanza finally went off the air in 1973. In the meantime, NBC, hoping to capitalize on the series’ popularity, brought several cast members into the recording studio. Greene released his first album in 1963, and the following year he scored a surprise number one smash with “Ringo,” a Western story song he narrated rather than sang. Greene charted a couple more times with 1965’s “The Man” and 1966’s “Waco,” and released a total of five albums on RCA Victor from 1963-1966. Afterwards, he returned to acting full-time, most notably appearing in the TV miniseries Roots and starring in the sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica, as well as narrating numerous documentaries. Just before he was scheduled to reprise his Bonanza role for a TV-movie reunion, Greene died of complications from surgery on September 11, 1987. –Artist Biography by Steve Huey
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Lorne Greene – Have a Happy Holiday (1965/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:19 minutes | 918 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy
Actor Lorne Greene enjoyed a brief recording career in the mid-’60s, when he was at the height of his popularity thanks to his role as Ben Cartwright on the long-running Western series Bonanza. Greene was born in 1915 in Ottawa, Ontario, and went to college to study chemical engineering. He wound up discovering theater instead, and opted for a career in the performing arts. He worked in radio for a time, working his way up to become Canada’s best-known newscaster. He left for New York in 1950, and soon appeared in Broadway productions and several films. He won the role of Ben Cartwright in 1959, playing the Ponderosa Ranch’s patriarch until Bonanza finally went off the air in 1973. In the meantime, NBC, hoping to capitalize on the series’ popularity, brought several cast members into the recording studio. Greene released his first album in 1963, and the following year he scored a surprise number one smash with “Ringo,” a Western story song he narrated rather than sang. Greene charted a couple more times with 1965’s “The Man” and 1966’s “Waco,” and released a total of five albums on RCA Victor from 1963-1966. Afterwards, he returned to acting full-time, most notably appearing in the TV miniseries Roots and starring in the sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica, as well as narrating numerous documentaries. Just before he was scheduled to reprise his Bonanza role for a TV-movie reunion, Greene died of complications from surgery on September 11, 1987. –Artist Biography by Steve Huey
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Lorne Balfe – The Cry (Original Television Soundtrack) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 48:56 minutes | 455 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
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Scotland’s Lorne Balfe is a Grammy Award-winning composer and producer known for his various film, television, and video game scores. Born in Inverness, Scotland in 1976, Balfe grew up in a musical family and began playing piano at a young age. A gifted musician, by his teens he was making a living writing jingles for commercials, a skill he quickly transitioned into scoring music for TV shows. After a period living in London, he relocated to California, where he joined the staff at composer Hans Zimmer’s Santa Monica-based Remote Control Productions. Working with Zimmer, he earned credits for such notable productions as Batman Begins, The Da Vinci Code, Transformers, and more.
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Lorne Balfe – Bad Boys for Life (Original Motion Picture Score) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:52 minutes | 429 MB | Genre: Soundtrack
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Original Motion Picture Score from the film Bad Boys for Life (2020). The music was composed by Lorne Balfe (Secret Society of Second Born Royals, The Cry, Gemini Man). Bad Boys for Life is a 2020 American action crime comedy film written by Chris Bremner, Joe Carnahan, David Guggenheim, Anthony Tambakis, George Gallo, directed by Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah. The film stars Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig, Charles Melton, Paola Nunez, Kate del Castillo, Nicky Jam, Joe Pantoliano.
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Lou Doillon – Soliloquy (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 39:53 minutes | 422 MB | Genre: Alternative
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Parisian singer-songwriter, actress, model and artist Lou Doillon is set to release her highly anticipated third album, Soliloquy, on February 1 via Barclay/Verve. The music video for lead single, “Burn,” debuts today—watch HERE and pre-order the album HERE. Doillon and her band will tour widely in support of the album, with U.S. dates to be announced in early 2019.
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Lou Doillon – Lay Low (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 32:26 minutes | 648 MB | Genre: Pop Rock
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Lou Doillon’s follow-up to 2012’s Places finds her in largely the same territory as that sultry record: elegant, undemonstrative, slightly gothic songs defined by her lovely voice. Part Beth Orton, part Keren Ann, it is a deep, confident groan, so forward in the mix that its breathiness is almost too intimate. One development is the involvement of co-producer Taylor Kirk of Timber Timbre, who brings fuller, shimmering production to some of these sad, bluesy morsels, ensuring the LP’s second half departs from the hushed, languid mood that is Doillon’s natural style. A mournful collection with touches of mania, this should be played in the dead of night.“ –Rolling Stone
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Lou Bega – 90s Cruiser (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 49:34 minutes | 583 MB | Genre: Pop
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He shaped the musical landscape of the late nineties and set it in motion like hardly anyone else – and these days he’s back to pick up on the carefreeness and joie de vivre of those days: Lou Bega releases his new album “90s Cruiser” – an extremely exuberant journey back in time to the nineties!
After he had already presented the single “Buena Macarena” in spring, the Munich native now serves the next single for the pre-order start: His interpretation of “Bongo Bong” is the ultimate summer soundtrack 2021!
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Lori Lieberman featuring Matangi Quartet – The Girl And The Cat (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:04:04 minutes | 637 MB | Genre: Folk
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When singer/songwriter Lori Lieberman wrote the worldwide hit ‘Killing Me Softly’ in the early 70’s, her life changed forever. She became part of the renowned West Coast scene that also featured artists like The Eagles, Joni Mitchell, John Stewart which led to collaborations with Leonard Cohen amongst others. Her new album ‘The Girl And The Cat’ sees her working with the Matangi Quartet, a Dutch string quartet well known for their groundbreaking collaborations with other musicians, both classical and popular. For this album, besides writing her lyrics and songs, she also arranged the scores and orchestrated for the string instruments with Stefanie Fife. The album release will be accompanied by a show in Carnegie Hall, followed by a Dutch tour.
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Lorkin O’Reilly – Heaven Depends (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 34:26 minutes | 674 MB | Genre: Folk
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Since immigrating to the United States from Scotland in 2014, Lorkin O’Reilly has been making a name for himself as a commanding new songwriting talent. His unique transatlantic approach blends old-country inspired open tunings similar to that of Bert Jansch, Nike Drake and Dick Gaughan with direct and personal reflections and poetry. His writing portrays not only his own reality, but experiences faced by most of us: the purgatory between childhood and adulthood, between new home and old home and finally the overarching struggle of finding a new identity.
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Loris Barrucand – Rebel & Boismortier: Les caractères d’Ulysse. Suites pour deux clavecins (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:01 minutes | 1,63 GB | Genre: Classical
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The discovery of Rebel’s (1666-1747) Dance Symphonies, a genre mixing dance and pantomime in which the narration is delivered by the dancer alone, was a defining moment in the passion of harpsichordist duo Loris Barrucand and Clément Geoffroy. Rebel, the author of a single Lyric Tragedy, Ulysse (1703), and Elémens (1737) a suite of symphonies famed for its initial Chaos, was first and foremost a composer of symphonies that were made to be danced. Among them is Les Caractères de la Danse (1715), an uninterrupted succession of fourteen dances that enjoyed a dazzling success. Remaining faithful to his time, Rebel intended for them to be played “like a piece on the harpsichord”. So why not two? The mastery of four virtuoso hands brings the two historic harpsichords of the Château de Versailles alive, playing them as a duet for the first time. The ten year partnership of the two performers brings all the flamboyance of Boismortier’s Ballet de Village to Ruckers’ (1628) and Blanchet’s (1746) harpsichords, while distilling the lightness of Belle Danse and the rebellious Characters of Ulysse.
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Lorin Maazel – Britten: War Requiem (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:32:59 minutes | 823 MB | Genre: Classical
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The War Requiem, Op. 66, is a large-scale, non-liturgical setting of the Requiem composed by Benjamin Britten mostly in 1961 and completed in January 1962. The War Requiem was performed for the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral, which was built after the original fourteenth-century structure was destroyed in a World War II bombing raid. The traditional Latin texts are interspersed, in telling juxtaposition, with settings of poems by Wilfred Owen, written in World War I. The work is scored for soprano, tenor and baritone soloists, chorus, boys’ choir, organ, and two orchestras (a full orchestra and a chamber orchestra). The chamber orchestra accompanies the intimate settings of the English poetry, while soprano, choirs and orchestra are used for the Latin sections; all forces are combined in the conclusion. The Requiem has a duration of approximately 90 minutes.
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Lori Williams – Turn, Turn, Turn (To Everything There is a Season) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 13:03 minutes | 153 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Setlist unabashedly plays favorites, and Lori Williams is by any measure near the top of the favorites list. This D.C. vocalist’s instrument contains the kind of nuances that one could get lost in. She has the kind of attenuation and subtlety that we associate with jazz singing instantly—a kind of jazz-vocal ‘discipline,’ for lack of a better term. But Williams slips in hints—and sometimes dead giveaways—that she has packed away the kind of soul power that would make her a tremendous R&B or gospel singer. Perhaps it’s a sort of vocalist’s twist on Ernest Hemingway’s “iceberg theory”: What you hear on the surface is only about 10 percent of what’s really there. As it happens, what is there is crystalline clarity, perhaps the most precise articulation of any singer in town, and a range that will, when she runs it, produce shivers. “She’s got a soft-edged, creamy voice that’s a natural vehicle for introspection, but also one that you could happily curl up and get lost in. It’s stunning, supple subtle, sumptuous, soulful music – let’s call that the five Ss of Lori Williams, shall we?”
Michael J. West – The Washington City Paper
Lori Williams – Out of the Box (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:08:32 minutes | 800 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © LoriJazz-CSI
DC Legend Lori Williams has a new project out called “Out Of The Box”. Although she’s been known in the Straight-Ahead Jazz ranks and is beloved in parts of Europe and Russia, this time, she’s going in a different direction as she looks to expand her audience here in the US and abroad. She’s not coming alone as she joins up with Tom Browne, Will Downing, Nathan East, and Maysa, to name a select few.
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Lori Williams – A New Book (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 53:37 minutes | 626 MB | Genre: Jazz
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“Lori Williams’ sensual surround sound vocals are like three lovers in your ears and mind at the same time.”
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